Sumários
Screening Queens 5
20 Março 2019, 10:00 • Ângela Fernandes
Presentation by the students of their papers related to representation of female sovereingty in modern film/visual media, relating to various aspects and problems that were discussed during the seminar: (1) Hélder Lopes on the Angolese/protuguese film Njinga: Rainha de Angola (2013); Bernardo Ferreira on politics, governance and friendship in The Favourite (2018); Jonas Prinzleve on the issue of biopolitics, agency and governance as represented in different films; Juan Alvarez Umbarila on the filmic and theatrical evocations of the figure of Evita Peron; Raluca Balan on age, bodily decay and solitude in filmic representations of Elizabeth and Victoria.
Screening Queens 4
19 Março 2019, 10:00 • Ângela Fernandes
Summary and recapitulation of diverse elements that were introduced and explainded from political philosophy, aesthetics and politics, gender and politics, film theory and framed by the general question of representation of female sovereignty in film: usefulness, critical reflection, aspects hitherto not acknowledged – classroom discussion and analysis of The Scarlet Empress (1934, Sternberg/Dietrich), Elizabeth (1998/2007, Kapur/ Blanchett), Elizabeth (2005, Hooper/Mirren), Victoria and Abdul (2017, Frears/Dench), The Favourite (2018, Lanthimos/Coleman).
Screening Queens 3
18 Março 2019, 10:00 • Ângela Fernandes
Seminar/discussion on the aesthetics and political signature of film/relationship fiction and history based on reading of various philosophical perspectice: Stanley Cavell “Letter from an unknown woman” (on Hollywood melodrama), Jacques Rancière “Gaps of Cinema” (film as art, problem of film theory and cinephilia, memory and movie), Natalie Zemon-Davis and Hayden White (on authenticity versus historical ‘reality’ and truth), Hermann Kappelhoff “The Distrubution of Emotion” (on Fassbinder from the perspective of Ranciere’s vision on cinema), Patricia MacCormack “Cinema of Desire: Cinesexuality and Guattari's Asignifying Cinema” (discussion related to former political feminist film theory).
Screening Queens 2
15 Março 2019, 10:00 • Ângela Fernandes
Lecture and discussion on the concept(s) of sovereignty in Western political thought and its (non-)relation to gender : from Hobbes’ contract theory – analysed by Hannah Arendt – to issues of authority, state and governance (Claude Lefort on Machiavelli) and modern theories of biopolitics (Foucault, Agamben) and the ‘state of exception’ (Agamben, Schmitt); analysis of Carl Schmitt’s essay on Hamlet (“Hamlet or Hekuba”) on the meaning of tragedy and its relationship to history and the so-called “taboo of the queen”; Bataille’s definition of sovereignty as transgression – discussion: how biopolitically fraught are modern representations of historical sovereignty ?
Screening Queens 1
14 Março 2019, 10:00 • Ângela Fernandes
General introduction to the theme of the seminar, enlarging the scope of “screened queens” to the the question of “representations of female sovereignty” and more general the poetics of politics and politics of poetics (imaginations of the state). Theoretical reflection on aesthetics and its relationship to politics (from Plato to Rancière), literature and representations the complexities of sovereignty, the aesthetics of film; characterization of issue women and political hegemony (incl. Mary Beard “Woman and Power. A Manifesto, 2017; Joan Landes, Women and the Public Sphere in the French Revolution, 1990), aesthetic representations of power in modernity: analysis of various examples from historical art (T.J.Clark, Farewell to an Idea, 1999) and modern film; feminist film theory (Mulvey, Sobchack) and political power